Northwest Travel Service, LLC. began operations in December of 1984, and has
been providing travel services consistently and conscientiously under the same
management and ownership since that time.

Change has been a key element to the travel industry. The advent of online
reservation options doomed many agencies that were slow to keep up with the times.
While commercial travel planning was a staple for the company in the 80s and 90s,
the change from vendor paid commissions to a service fee structure precipitated a
change to special interest tour planning.

Beginning with the University of Washington Husky away-game to Lincoln
Nebraska, the agency began to focus on the college football road game experience.
While the main clients for these tours were Husky fans, road trips were also
developed for Washington State, University of Oregon, and Nebraska Husker fans.

With the success of the Seattle Mariners in the 1995 season, baseball road trips were
offered to local fans to over 22 Major League ballparks around the country. With the
introduction of Safeco Field and the steady decline of the local nine, baseball tours
came to an end.

In the late 90s I began to develop and promote garden tours with television and radio
host Ciscoe Morris. Since the Spring of 1998, we’ve worked together on garden tours
to Spain, Portugal, France, England, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Ireland,
Italy, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. Author and garden writer Marty
Wingate and I have partnered on many garden tours as well to the United Kingdom
and Western Europe. Future garden tours include Wales and Merseyside (June 2019)
Fall Colors of Japan in November 2019, and South Africa in the winter of 2020.

Since 2014 the focus has been on wine tourism, specifically to Europe. Beginning in
2015 with a chartered vessel of 130 guests in the Bordeaux region, I’ve offered a river
cruise through a wine region in each subsequent year. In 2019 Germany’s Mosel
region is offered. In 2020, a return to Bordeaux is scheduled. In 2021, I have plans to
charter a mega-yacht for a week cruising the Adriatic along the coast of Croatia. In
2022, based on the success of a previous tour, I have plans to charter another vessel on
the Douro River of Portugal. In 2023, it’s likely that the Rhone River of France will
be developed.

If you’re interested in receiving information on any tour program in development,
please send an email to me at brad@nwtravel.com